OR, GLIMPSES BENEATH THE WATERS. 



ficiently extraordinary. It is possible that the 

 fragments of the disruptured Star-Fish have the 

 power, in each separate fragment, of renewing the 

 absent portions, and that each portion thus becomes 

 a perfect fish, the disseyered portions having been 

 noticed to retain their yitality long after their sepa- 

 ration. We know that the little Garden Lizard has 

 the power of dislocating his tail without effort^ and 

 leaving it between the thumb and finger, when he 

 is playfully caught by that appendage; and, also, 

 that he has the power of renewing his caudal extre- 

 mity within a very short period. It is thought, 

 therefore, not impossible^ reasoning by analogy, 

 that the Star-Ksh may possess powers of a similar 

 kind, of a somewhat more extensive character. 



The Amnion Star-Fish, called sometimes Five- 

 fingered (Asterias ruhemj, belongs to the division 

 BcMnodermata^ that is, skinned like the Hedge- 

 hog. 



The Sea-Egg, Sea-XJrchin, or Egg-Urchin, as it is 

 sometimes called, belongs also to the Bchmodermata^ 

 or Hedgehog- skinned class, and form interesting 

 objects in the Aquarium; the flat species exhibiting 

 much more evidently their close affinity to the Star- 

 Fish tribcj than those of the more common spherical 

 form. 



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